By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Organizations of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and advocacy groups espousing migrant rights welcomed the Philippine government's recent ratification of International Labor Organization Convention 189 (C189) on...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The election watchdog Kontra-Daya and the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) have filed a petition with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) calling for the immediate and final disqualification of a number of...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- A lawmaker has charged that the Benigno Aquino III administration's proposed budget allocation for education is so meager that it will drive state schools to implement more commercialization schemes, tuition and...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
In Makati, the poor of Guatemala street know nothing of the city's wealth "We have heard that the Makati City fathers want to make Makati a premier city; we wish that it would do so without driving out the poor like us. We are people, too, and we are willing to do our share if only the government would help us a little instead of mostly ignoring us."
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Not all religious leaders are against the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill. A leader of the Protestant Church in Davao City has said that the RH Bill is not evil because it aims to do good for the Filipino...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
One of the victims, Merlyn Diones Bermas, exposed the the February 12, 2012 massacre involving members of the Philippine Army's 49th Infantry Battalion.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"The government should allocate resources and funds needed for local disaster response systems to properly act. There should be consistent monitoring and updating of areas which are vulnerable to widespread flooding or flash floods (especially in low-lying areas or communities near large dams and rivers) and landslides (especially in geohazard zones and deforested areas)." – Kalikasan Party
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“There's now a combined estimate of at least 12,000 to 14,000 undocumented OFWs in Saudi Arabia, higher than last year's estimate pegged from 8,000 to 10,000." – Migrante
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"The RH bill is about women's access to healthcare, the right to informed choice. This is not an issue of population control or a question of religion or faith. Lawmakers, as well as the rest of the Filipino people, should focus on the state of women and children’s 'un-health', and this should be the primary consideration when lawmakers cast their vote to end debates and interpellation on August 7.” – Rep. Luz Ilagan, Gabriela Women’s party
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"I cannot but be distressed by the continuing prejudice of our justice system against my son and other political prisoners like him.”
INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Instead of heeding the just demands of state workers for adequate remuneration and tighter price controls, Aquino targets public servants, whose basic take-home pay cannot them home.”– ACT
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Are military personnel involved in large-scale, illegal logging operations in the country? The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) is convinced that this is a possibility. It advised...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Pambansang Lakas ng Mamamalakayang Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) has issued a demand that the Benigno Aquino III administration stop its plans to ask the United Nations to send a peacekeeping force and help keep China...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Solidarity Groups in Australia were quick to denounce the Philippine Senate as the latter ratified the Australia-RP Status of Visiting Forces Agreement (SOVFA) on July 24, 2012.The groups represent Filipino migrants...
Protests against the "true state of the nation" were held simultaneously across the country. By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO em> Bulatlat.com MANILA -- It was not only in the National Capital Region (NCR) where protests erupted against President Benigno Aquino III's...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Party-list groups Kalikasan and Kabataan and the No 2 Coal-Central Luzon (No2Coal-CL) alliance recently filed with the Supreme Court a petition for a Writ of Kalikasan against the construction of a 2x300 megawatt...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO and ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“The OFWs, joined by other maltreated migrant workers of other nationalities, launched strikes and ‘stop-work protests.’ They appealed to the Philippine embassy for help, but they were left to fend for themselves.”
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Greed for profit, not goals of efficiency. Groups under the banner of the Stop Privatization Alliance and the Confederation for the Unity, Recognition, and Advancement of Government Employees (COURAGE) held a protest...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Once charity patients from indigent families without PhilHealth coverage are turned away from public hospitals, many will be forced to simply wait for death even if they are suffering from what originally were treatable diseases."
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Health workers continue to protest against the refusal of the Aquino government to release their hazard pay and other benefits. In a statement, the Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) said health workers have been...
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